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The issue of Hosting and Links

Tarky7 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:30:51 +0000

Just signed onto an account with DreamHost out of California. As far as open source hosting companies, it is very different from the cPanel / Fantastico interface. I like it, seems a bit more rough and ready. After having 2 separate BlueHost accounts and discovering the reality of their TOS, which in this day and age, is totally bizarre. I have no way of controlling feedback from the ether, and the last thing I want is to have one of my hosting accounts go down because someone posted something with a few words of profanity. These days, with the way things are going in Washington, how can you NOT use profanity to describe the state of the union !

NFK ! No Future Krew !

Tarky7 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:59:39 +0000

Viral Baby, You gaining some sort of traction, surf it to some sort of counter kulture celebrity !

Yes, I am in MA, out in the Berkshires, thank you for your quick response, my blog is just the scrabbling of claws against the rock, nuthin inportant, but whatever is is ya’ll are doing, maybe make some T-shirts, or sumptin, sell em.

I think what is going in on is that folks are sooo tired of the lying and the marketing of lies, conspiracy theories aside.

No BS, No Fear, the real deal, perhaps ya’ll have hit some sort o’ nerve of truth, less talk, all action !

Keep me posted, whatever I kin do to orbit your groove and help along, feel free to ask, no strings attached. Perhaps I am not ever real, just a ghost in the machine, echoing and vibrating along hollow wires…

Tarky7

Finishing up Gentle Yoga

Tarky7 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:44:09 +0000

Mickey and I have been working on Gentle Yoga, a website for Rudy Pierce ans his wonderful Gentle Yoga practice. He is going to be teaching his yoga class in Tuscany, Italy and he has a program for 21 people at the end of September. We have redone his old site using Word Press and I think it looks smashing.

Germany and China Censor Flickr

Tarky7 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:05:07 +0000

Well the censorship issue has again hit Flickr, being driven by it’s corporate parent Yahoo. There is huge outrage among German Flickr users more than the Chinese simply because the Chinese Flickr members can’t see any images within Mainland China. Apparently the issue with the Chinese government is about the anniversary Tiananmen massacre in early June 1989.

The German ones appears to come from the recent move by Flickr to create interfaces in the native languages of various countries. The skinny is that since Germany has a ban on the display of Nazi Era artifacts, especially the German Swastika and other related materials.

As to whether or not this is coming out of Yahoo corporate giving in to these two countries demands, legal liability in Germany as is relates to the TOS, or just Yahoo being a bunch of Wankers, the jury is still out.

How does this relate ? It’s all about Web 2.0 and what is current with the Online Community.

Wow, too much Blog ! ;)

Tarky7 — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:37:11 +0000

As posted here, at Online Media Spin, after finding it here, on Gawker Media:

Well, you passed the first test, which was whether you would delete my posts, Darn !

*kicks dog*

But, more to the point about ‘blogging’.

The issue at hand relative to ‘marketing’ and ‘advertising’ utilizing ‘blogs’ more about guts and the ability to fundamentally change industry business models.

For example, the RIAA and the MPAA and all the various corporations that support these two organizations are being dragged kicking and screaming into this â€˜new mediaâ€™ (interactive) and in the process alienating the very core customer base that they are attempting to sell to.

Why ? Because they are not willing to let go of a business model. Not only are they not listening to the desires of their customers (well produced product, high quality, non DRM) they are actively suing and prosecuting grandmothers, children and college students.

It is not about CEOs blogging, or even CFOs, but about using the blog as a platform to listen to real world feedback of customers. The problem is, if you invite that feedback using a blog, you have to not only respond, but make changes. Creating a contract like that with the consumer strike fear deep into the heart of the spine of many C-level executives.

Dell has made a foray into the Wild West of the Blogging Web with it’s new blog: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/default.aspx And the result is that they are hearing what people want and responding.

That is the real issue here. Can the marketing community get their very masters to take a leap of faith and make the change